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N. L. HATCH. HAY LOADER.

No. 85,092. Patented Dec. 22, 1868.

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NEHEMIAH L. HATCI-I, OF CAPE ELIZABETH, MAINE.

Letters Patent No. 85,092, dated December 22, 1868.

To all wlwmjt' may concern:-

Be it known that I, Nniiemrxn L. HATCH, of Cape Elizabeth, in the county of Cumberland, and State of Maine, have invented a new and useful Hay-Loader; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others to make and use my invention, reference being bad to the accompanying (hawings, forming part of thisspecification, in which- Figure 1, plate 1, shows an end new of a portion of a cart, with my invention thereon, in operation.

' lsignre 2 is a detail of the wheel and gear, so taken as to shown the lever: or arm.

llate 2 shows a side viewof a cart with my device attached thereto.

The'purpose of my invention is to produce a cheap and simple contn'vance to load hay from the field into therack or cart, by the motion of the cart and the power of the cattle. c \Vith this view I first-attach to the hub of one of the cart-wheels a small gear, a, to revolve with the hub, as the cart is drawn along.

From the bottom of the cart-body I run out an arm, b, with a hole in its end.

At the top of the cart-frame I attach a piece, 0, also with -a hole therein.

Into the holes in the two pieces b and c, I set the upright, d. This upright has a shoulder, so as to keep it in place in I), (see plate 2,) and is loosely held in c.

To the base of this upright, 11, is rigidly attached the horizontal arm e. Through this horizontal arm e is set an axle, 1; having on the inside, rigidly attached to it, the gear g, and on the outside, the larger wheel h.

The purpose of this is,- that, by the lever e', the wheel 'h and gear 9 can be swung away from the cart- -wheel, as seen in dotted lines in plate 2.

' When placed s'othat the gear g-will match the gear u, as in the drawing, then the revolution of the cartwheel 1' will turn g and Il.

The upright, (I, has attached to it two blocks, one atthe top, j, and one on a line with the top of the wheel h at k. 11; also has hinged to it, at the top, the arm on, with its bmce 'n, to hold 117: as desired, and catching into 'a recesscut into (I.

.The purpose of having it hinged or jointed to in, and so as to be capable of being slipped out of the upright, ll, is in order that m and n can be dropped or turned down by the side of d, when not in use, so that the device will nor be too high to enter the door of a barn.

At the upper end of m are attached two blocks, as shown at 0 o, and carrying two hooks. Through the blocks 0 0, j, and It, runs the cord I, which is attached to the circumference of the wheel h, which is grooved .on the edge to receive the cord.

Now, when the gear g isunatched with the gear a, by means of the arm 0 being placed as seen in plate 2, it is evidentthat thelrevolution of the cart-wheel i will revolve the wheel h, and so wind up the cord r, and thus raise the hooks p 1), and that at vany moment the winding up can be arrested by throwing oii the arm e, and consequently the gear y out of a.

The turning of the upright, 11, by 'the arm 0, has

another purpose. When g matches (0, then it is seen,

ti'om plate 1, that the arm in hangs out beyond the.

cart or rack, but by swinging 0 around on the pivot of (l at I), (seen in plate 2,) then m is thrown in over the cart or rack, and the contents of the hooks p ready to he dropped into the cart.

This is illustrated in plate 1, and is efl'ected by turning (Z around on its base at I), by the means of the arm or hand-lever e.

The hooks p p are designed to be dropped down to the ground,' and their horizontal parts pushed under a heap of hay, and when lifted over the cart, as in plate 1, the person standing in the cart pulls out one, or pulls them apart, and the hay drops into the cart.

After the hooks p 1) have deposited the heap of hay in the cart, they are drawn down to the necessary point to pass under-another -heap of hay, and the gear 9 then swung round to match a, and is then ready to lift the next heap; Throw out the brace n at its conmotion with (I at w, and then m and n, with cord 'r, and the pulleys, will drop down alongside of d, and thus be but little. in the way. The upright, d, can then be lifted out of the hole in b, and, together with arm 0, wheel h, and gear 9, he placed in the cart, and carried or an away;

My device is attachable to and detachable from a common cart.

I do not, of course, claim the component parts; they are not new.

Whenthe hooks 1) p are drawn up with a load, as in plate 1, the-load is held from running down, by the ammo, pressed by hand against the wheel h, and. thus stopping its revolution. D

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Lette1s..Patent,is-

The combination of the gear a, on the wheel-hub, gear 5:, on the arm 0, arm 4;, wheel h, cord 1', blocks 7; and j, m a, and blocks 0 0, as and for the purposes set forth.

- NEHEMIAH L. HATCH.

Witnesses 7 WILLIAM HENRY Cmrronn,

HENRY Gzl fovs'ron. 

